EARTH - Week 3: Session 1: Chakra 4

Discussion
Rest into the wisdom of the 4th chakra Anahata

• Located in your chest at the level of your heart and lungs, extending down to your hands

• Associated with the Air element

• It is the meeting place of your lower and higher chakras.

• It is the center from which you relate to others.

• It elevates self-love, kindness, and forgiveness is your life

• Anytime you feel: warmth and empathy for something or someone else - this center is in balance

• It accentuates your right to LOVE

• Ability to love

• Fulcrum

• Joy

• Soft

• Expansive

• Balance

• Heart + Lungs

• Relationships

• Heart to arms - like a hug

• Self-Love

• Self-Acceptance

• Biggest heart

• Collaboration, opportunity

• Love - not competition

• Abundance

Part of your coursework is to:

• Read pg. 222-283 Eastern Body

• Review Chapter 4 Angelus

Self-reflection + Journal

• What gifts and wisdom does a balanced fourth chakra provide?

• Consider and reflect upon your default mind-set when it comes to love or anything associated with the 4th chakra.

• In what ways would you like to collaborate with another, or with Spirit?

 EARTH - Week 3: Session 2: Chakra 5

Discussion
Communicate with the  chakra Visshudha

• Located at the base of your neck, where you collar bones meet, then moving up the cylinder of your throat to your mouth and chin

• Associated with the element of Sound

• It bridges your feeling with your thinning through creative expression and speech

• It is the center from which you relate to others.

• It provides you with the ability to listen and verbally express your needs, desires, and opinions truthfully and authentically.

• Anytime you feel: heard and able to communicate change and healing - this center is in balance

• It allows for your ability to SPEAK

• Sound

• Communication

• Hearing

• Listening 

Part of your coursework is to:

• Read pg 286-336 Eastern Body

• Review Chapter 5 Angelus

Self-reflection + Journal

• What gifts and wisdom does a balanced fifth chakra provide?

• In what ways do you use, or don’t use, your voice?

• What are you holding back that needs to be said?

• How would softening your tone and becoming aware of the sound frequency of your voice change the way you listen and speak?

 EARTH - Week 3: Session 3: Chakra 6

Discussion
Envision the 6th chakra Ajna

• Located at the bridge of your nose, between your eyebrows in the geometric center of your brain

• Associated with the element of Light

• It is the place of subtle perception

• It reveals the insight of your future, while your physical eyes see the present and the past

• It illuminates everything as it is without the filter of your history, your expectations, or your judgements. 

• Anytime you feel: in tune with your dreams - this center is in balance + aligned

• It illuminates your right to SEE

• Light

• 3rd eye

• Imagination

• Visualization

• Intuition

• Dreams

• Seed of wisdom

Part of your coursework is to:

• Read p. 338-388 in Eastern Body

• Review Chapter 6 in Angelus

Self-reflection + Journal

• What gifts and wisdom does a balanced sixth chakra provide?

• Share your dreams

• Take some time to dream big - paint a picture with words and images

• Complete the Creative Exercise: Design Your Life in Chapter 6.4 of Angelus

 EARTH - Week 3: Session 4: Chakra 7

Discussion
Connect and know the 7th chakra Sahasrara

• Located at the soft spot on top of your head that adjusted and closed 3 months after your were born

• Associated with Bliss - it allows your to experience what is beyond the mundane

• It provides access to Universal Intelligence

• It is the center from which you sense subtleties and gestures from a higher source that guides your every step.

• It illuminates everything as it is without the filter of your history, your expectations, or your judgements. 

• Anytime you feel: that everything is interconnected and that you are a part of the larger web of life - this center is in open 

• It channels your right to KNOW

• Abode of consciousness

• Supreme connection

• Divine Intelligence

Part of your coursework is to:

• Read pg 390-436 Eastern Body

• Review Chapter 7 Angelus

Self-reflection + Journal

• What gifts and wisdom does an open, and expanded 7th chakra provide?

• In what ways could an open 7th chakra become problematic?

• What do you “know that you know”?